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Buddhism in Thailand

Two late 20th-century Buddhist groups, Santi Asoke (founded 1975) and
Dhammakaya, are especially interesting. Santi Asoke, a lay-oriented group that advocates stringent discipline, moral rectitude, and political reform, has been very much at odds with the established ecclesiastical hierarchy. The
Dhammakaya group has been much more successful at gathering a large popular following but has also...

Buddhist reform

...affairs as well. Since the 20th century, groups of this kind, both large and small, both tightly organized and loosely knit, have proliferated all across the Buddhist world. One example is the
Dhammakaya group, a very large, well-organized, hierarchical, and commercialized sectarian group that is centred in Thailand. Sometimes labeled “fundamentalist,” the
Dhammakaya group...